American History Revealed

Richard Ives
American History Revealed

AHR transports the listener back in time to significant moments in the early history of our great nation - the epic history of “Lost Colony,” Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the Pequot War. Our country. Our history. These are the stories that have made us who we are.

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  1. EPISODIO 1

    1. The Prophet Outcast

    Season two premier. After his banishment from Plymouth Colony, Roger Williams and his family are taken in by the Salem Colony with open arms. Little did they expect that Williams' incindiary views of worship, and disallegance to the crown, would cause uproar within this small New England community, and with the high council of Boston. Listen in the follow his adventures through banishment, persecultion and ultimately, adoption by an unlikely ally.

    27 min

  2. EPISODIO 2

    2. Mistress Hutchinson

    In this episode of AHR, we discuss the role of Mistress Anne Hutchinson, now regarded by many as one of the most influential female figures in early American History. Defiant of the enforced spiritual laws of New England, she becomes an object of fixation for Govenor of Massachusetts John Winthrop. As her following builds, he begins his campaign to defame and smear her name as a spiritual leader. Meanwhile, Roger Williams continues to fight the powers that be in Boston.

    30 min

  3. EPISODIO 3

    3. The Pequot War - Part One

    In this episode, we discuss the beginnings of The Pequot War, a violent series of battles that cost both settlers and natives alike countless lives. We begin with the attack of trader John Stone and his men by Pequot chief Sassaucs and his fellow tribesmen, and the violence that ensued for years to come.

    14 min

  4. EPISODIO 4

    4. The Pequot War - Part Two

    In this second installment of the two-part tale of The Pequot War, we see the aftermath of the brutal attack and murder of John Oldham and his crew. As outrage ripped through the New England colonies, Massachusetts officials called upon a once exiled Minister Roger Williams for help in a surprise twist. Meanwhile, violence ensued between the Pequots and the settlers in what became one of bloodiest chapters of early American history.

    25 min

  5. EPISODIO 5

    5. The Martyr

    In this episode, we examen the persecution of religious freethinker Anne Hutchinson and her subsequent exile. Accused by Minister John Winthrop of two crimes: being adverse to the standard teachings of the religious community she inhabited, and for being a woman that didn’t know her place, she faced a slanderous trail that held her future, and the future of her family, in the balance.

    24 min

  6. EPISODIO 6

    6. Light and Darkness

    In this follow-up the the last episode, Anne Hutchinson and her family leave Boston for New Amsterdam with the permission of the Dutch. Anne faces the most painful moment of her life, and after believing they had finally found sanctuary, the entire Hutchinson family is met with a gruesome and untimely fate.

    23 min

  7. EPISODIO 7

    7. Satan and His Servants

    Tensions in New England provoked fear in the minds of the settlers, and created deep aprihensions about the possibility that Satan was attemping to take over the colonies.

    21 min

  8. EPISODIO 8

    8. Of Beasts and Men

    In this episode, we touch on one of the most taboo of sinful practices in the New England Colonies - beastiality. Join us as we discuss the most well known cases of colony members who were accused, tried and found guilty for their crimes - and the impact it left on the moral image of their communities.

    26 min

  9. EPISODIO 9

    9. King Philip and His War

    Over the course of two decades the English settlers of New England came to believe that the Pequot War marked the end of Native American resistance to English rule in the region. They could have been more mistaken in that view, and for that reason they were totally unprepared for the revolt inspired by the charismatic Indian chieftain known as "King Philip," whose war against the whites (1675-1676) is considered by historians to have been the most successful Native American rebellion in the history of the continent.

    21 min
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AHR transports the listener back in time to significant moments in the early history of our great nation - the epic history of “Lost Colony,” Jamestown, the Pilgrims, and the Pequot War. Our country. Our history. These are the stories that have made us who we are.

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